"Beer To-Go" vs. "Store"

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  1. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    @Todd There are many bottle shops in the BA database that carry the "Beer To-Go" designation on their Places page but many (all?) do not also carry the "Store" designation. Therefore, these places cannot be found in a search of a city when using "Store" as a filter, yet "Beer To-Go" is not a filter. Is it logical and possible to add the "Store" designation across the database to every business that carries the "Beer To-Go" designation?
     
  2. Todd

    Todd Founder (13,518) Aug 23, 1996 Finland
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    The thinking behind "beer-to-go" was that we were seeing a ton of breweries (and some bars) offering growlers, singles, packs, and whatnot that consumers could buy and take home, but they're not stores so the tag was created.
     
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  3. BigIronH

    BigIronH Grand Pooh-Bah (3,762) Oct 31, 2019 Michigan
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    Ah. I’m definitely guilty of mis appropriating that tag then. Is this to say that stores should not be tagged with “beer to go”? I guess in retrospect it makes sense since the fact it is a store implies they have beer to go. Cheers.
     
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  4. Todd

    Todd Founder (13,518) Aug 23, 1996 Finland
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    Yeah. It's redundant as everything at a store is to-go.
     
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  5. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    I was guessing that Beer To-Go was designed for use in Brewery category, so it's just being misused and assigned wrongly when it's added to a true Store. Can Beer To-Go be added as a search filter, or is changing all stores that carry the BTG category to the Store designation the way to go?
     
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  6. dbrauneis

    dbrauneis Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,071) Dec 8, 2007 North Carolina
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    When Places are added, there is only a single checkbox for “Sells beer to go” which is what is is ticked to indicate… I think it is treated differently from a Search perspective (when it is the only box ticked, it indicates a store but when combined with another box it seems to indicate beer-to-go).
     
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  7. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    If I understand you right your suggestion is correct, but clicking on another filter in a search would cause any bottle shop that does not carry bar, eatery or brewery to be disqualified from that search's results.

    Beer To-Go has to be made a new filter selection to find bottle shops (and unfortunately many Bars, Eateries or Breweries too), or we go back to every business that carries that designation that is also a bottle shop and manually change that designation to Store.

    EDIT: Looking as your suggestion again, you're right as long as Store is also selected as one of the filters. My initial reaction didn't consider using Store as a filter, which is illogical because that's what I'm primarily looking for anyway. :rolling_eyes:
     
    #7 PapaGoose03, Dec 5, 2022
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